There are indeed genuine products in such informal markets. Moreover, if you have a good eye, you can buy treasures with extremely high cost performance. However, there are more fakes here.
Especially in the field of elixirs!
When a finished pill is taken out, a layman cannot tell the quality of the pill, let alone whether it is a waste pill, a poisonous pill, or the kind of pill he wants.
Don't expect sects like Zhishen Valley, which specializes in selling elixirs, to have integrity. In fact, if a large sect can bring elixirs to such a place to sell privately, you can easily guess where the elixirs come from... Maybe it's a pill that an inner sect disciple has ruined, or maybe it's a pill that an elder has tried to make. In short, the elixirs from large sects may be even less reliable.
When it comes to matters like elixirs, it’s best to go through official channels, that is, transactions between sects.
If there are special circumstances and you have to buy it privately, then you'd better know a little about elixirs. If you don't know, then find someone trustworthy who knows about elixirs. Don't buy it like a fool, otherwise you will be 100% ripped off.
Huang Feiyu was obviously not a rookie. He didn't know anything about elixirs, but he knew to ask Qin Ran for help.
"What do you want the Ice Condensation Pill for?" Qin Ran asked.
"I am practicing an ice-attributed sword technique, which requires the assistance of Ice Condensation Pills." Huang Feiyu explained hurriedly.
Practicing ice-attributed sword techniques, it seems that he has water spiritual roots. Qin Ran thought for a while and said, "Although I have studied the Ice Condensation Pill, I have never refined it myself. I don't know if I can help you."
It's obvious that she's very tsundere when she said this. Although she didn't directly agree to help, her intention to help was obvious.
Huang Feiyu understood what was going on, bowed again, and said, "Master uncle is indeed very knowledgeable. He has even studied the rare elixir like Bing Ning Dan. With Master uncle's help, I will definitely be able to buy the best Bing Ning Dan."
He knew that this was flattery, a classic operation in the world of immortal cultivation. No matter what happened beforehand, they would just praise the person first. If things were not done well and inferior pills were bought, they would definitely settle the score afterwards. Qin Ran was clear about these operations in his mind, but he did not respond and only maintained the demeanor of a master as the head of Danfeng.
After reaching an agreement with Qin Ran, Huang Feiyu did not immediately take Qin Ran to buy pills. Instead, he turned around and pulled a young and beautiful girl over to Qin Ran and introduced her, "This is my junior sister, her name is Tian Wenjin. She wants to buy a few Soul Gathering Pills. Please take care of her for her, senior."
Qin Ran looked at Tian Wenjin and secretly observed her. He found that she was a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old. She was very pretty, with a cold and beautiful fox face. She was the kind of explosive beauty that attracted the eye. She was no less beautiful than Li Shiyin.
The girl still had a mortal look in her eyes, and it was obvious that she had not yet absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into her body, which meant that she had not yet started practicing.
A new disciple of Daojianmen.
Qin Ran carefully examined her and found that there was a flow of air in her body, which meant that she had sensed the Qi. She had sensed the Qi less than five days after the Dao Conference, which showed that she had a good talent.
Considering her appearance, Qin Ran began to think: if Li Shiyin also joined Jianfeng that day, the two of them would definitely be the peerless beauties of Jianfeng's new generation.
"This is the head monk of Jianfeng, Uncle Qin!" Huang Feiyu and Tian Wenjin said.
Tian Wenjin nodded, but glared at Qin Ran and said, "I know. I saw that top-level gold spiritual root Li Shiyin on the day of the Dao Conference. She went to make pills with him."
My goodness, no matter how young Qin Ran looks, he is still a senior apprentice. It is really rude of her to look at him like this.
Qin Ran saw it and knew that this girl must be relying on her talent and was a little arrogant. She was so young and looked down on everyone.
This kind of arrogance is different from Li Shiyin's stupid, silly arrogance.
He shook his head in his heart and commented secretly that such a person would not live long in the world of immortal cultivation if she did not correct her thoughts in time.
Because what the world of immortal cultivation lacks the least is genius.
Huang Feiyu obviously wanted to pursue Tian Wenjin. Seeing Tian Wenjin like this, he hurriedly covered for her and said to Qin Ran with a smile, "Senior, please come this way. I have seen Bing Ning Dan at the stall of a disciple of Zhishen Valley."
Qin Ran glanced at Huang Feiyu and said nothing more. It wasn't that he was generous, he was just lazy and didn't want to care. On the other hand, if he wasn't lazy, he should have taught her a lesson, because Tian Wenjin's personality was too easy to get into trouble... and very easy to die.
Huang Feiyu led the way, and soon, the three of them arrived at the stall selling Bingning Dan.
Zhishengu, a sect that focuses on alchemy, is geographically located in the Northern Chu Kingdom, just like the Daojian Sect. It is one of the five major sects in the Northern Chu Kingdom.
In an alchemy sect like Zhishengu, tens of thousands of pills are produced every day, and behind these tens of thousands of qualified pills, there are even more unqualified pills.
For example, the useless pills made by disciples when learning to make pills, the poisonous pills made when testing new pills, etc., these pills are naturally not wanted by other sects. Then, they digest the better ones internally, and if no one wants them, they will try to sell them to other sects in Northern Chu.
The stall set up by the young man in front of me sells this kind of medicine.
Qin Ran took a quick glance and found that the quality of the pills on the stall was quite poor, and there were also a small number of waste and poison pills.
Because there were basically no alchemists in Daojian Sect, and the only one was Qin Ran, the disciples from Zhisheng Valley who came to Daojian Sect to sell pills were obviously more arrogant. They could sell waste pills as high-quality pills and low-quality pills as top-quality pills.
"How much do you sell your Bingning Pills for?" Huang Feiyu squatted down, selected casually for a while, picked up a bottle of Bingning Pills and asked.
"Five hundred low-grade spirit stones for a bottle. No bargaining." The stall owner replied lazily.
The Ice Condensation Pill is an auxiliary pill. It is very simple to refine. To put it bluntly, it is just a piece of ice, but it can be dispersed into ice gas at will. For this kind of pill, let alone five hundred spirit stones, Qin Ran would consider five spirit stones expensive.
and…
He then squatted down, took the porcelain bottle from Huang Feiyu's hand, casually broke the seal and looked inside carefully.
"Don't open it. Will you be responsible if the quality drops?!" Seeing Qin Ran's action, the stall owner yelled at him and reached out to grab the porcelain bottle.
Qin Ran let his hand go and put the seal back.
"Are you an apprentice or an outer disciple?" Qin Ran asked the stall owner while holding the porcelain bottle. The job of selling low-quality pills would be done by people of this status.
“What’s it got to do with you?” The disciples of Zhishengu were always arrogant. Even though he was an outer disciple, he dared to glare at Qin Ran.
“If you can decide…” Qin Ran tossed the porcelain bottle and said, “I’ll give you one spirit stone for this bottle.”
Is this how you bargain? Are you crazy? Tian Wenjin, who was standing behind him, frowned and didn't understand. But she was just arrogant, not stupid, and she didn't say anything nonsense.
Huang Feiyu couldn't help but look at Qin Ran. He knew the nature of this kind of place. Bargaining in half was a common practice, but... this was the first time he had seen Qin Ran's bargaining method.
“If you don’t want to buy… get out of here!” There was never a shortage of buyers for the pills in Zhishen Valley. The stall owner snatched the pills from Qin Ran’s hand and said coldly.
Qin Ran was not angry. He stood up, looked down at the stall owner, and said, "The quality of the bottle of Bing Ning Dan in your hand is a little worse and it would be considered a waste. If my disciple refines Bing Ning Dan into this state, I will probably expel him from the sect.
"One spiritual stone is a reward for your hard work, not the cost of this bottle of elixir. It doesn't deserve it." He gestured to Huang Feiyu, "If he didn't happen to need it, you wouldn't be able to sell this bottle of elixir. I said that."
After hearing this, the stall owner knew that the man in front of him was knowledgeable about the goods, so he looked at him seriously. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Two spiritual stones. The master said that I have to sell it for at least one spiritual stone. I want one spiritual stone as a reward for my hard work."
“A spiritual stone…” Qin Ran did not back down at all. “I don’t believe that there is an alchemist who can refine the Ice Condensation Pill into this state and still have the nerve to sell it.”
The stall owner fell silent. This was indeed a pill that had been treated as waste and he just picked it up.
"One... one spiritual stone is one spiritual stone." He replied.
"Tsk!" Qin Ran shook his head disdainfully and turned away.